Hate incoming, but lucian feels weak right now.
They removed his reliable poke option in lane which miss fortune has, ezreal has, ashe has, twitch has, and some other adcs that I can't name right now. Lucian's come off as an early game adc to me for a while now, but even then, some of the best late game scaling adcs, like ashe, twitch, and miss fortune, can duel him so easily it's stupid. Infact, little twitch rant, this stupidly op champ scales into late game but 1v1s literally every adc with his e damage. Pair him with leona and boom stealth and lockdowns and no escape 24/7. Back to the topic, lucian finally found a build that helped him contribute with his previously garbage ass ult, which did no damage to tanks. Then they nerfed his poke, and they nerfed his ult. I'm really wondering what he has going for him. Do you really think that short range dash that is mostly useful for going over walls can be reset in time to use more than 3 times in a fight where he's focused down or killed in 2-3 hits from an ashe/twitch/vayne? No way. If you can't end a game pre 20 minutes, lucian turns into absolute ass because he has no way to reliably damage since his 2nd shot does 50% damage. If you dash into an adc and want to kill them, you'll get 2 shots off and then get popped cuz the other adc had 2 shots with full damage while you had only one shot with full damage. I just miss playing this guy in lane and being able to poke reliably and actually melt people with my easily dodgeable ult. His mobility isn't anything to brag about. It has a high cd until you buy essence reaver + pd/shiv/cannon or youmuus + cleaver and you'll have to get 6ish shots off to reset it completely.